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Further Workplace Health and Safety bosses will be grilled at the inquest into the Dreamworld disaster today, after a leading inspector admitted he had "no confidence" in the emergency procedures in place on the Thunder River Rapids ride.

Man charged with 1983 Melbourne murder

A man has been charged with murder, six counts of rape and false imprisonment after attacks in Melbourne's southeast dating back almost four decades.

Victoria Police on Friday charged a 65-year-old Tocumwal man with the 1983 murder of Rodney Mitchell at Rowville.

The accused was also charged with three counts of false imprisonment and six counts of rape for two separate incidents at the same location. One occurred the same year and another three years earlier, when a woman was allegedly sexually assaulted and her partner falsely imprisoned.

Father-of-two Mr Mitchell had been in a parked red Mitsubishi with a woman at Police Paddocks in Rowville on May 23, 1983 when a masked bandit shot him. He died from his injuries.

The area had been a popular parking spot at the time, police said.

The gunman was previously alleged to have tied up the woman and driven away. She escaped by forcing open the passenger door and jumping from the moving car, before being rescued by another driver.

Victoria Police offered a $500,000 reward in 2013 - up from $50,000 in 1983 - for information about the death of Mr Mitchell.